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Let them eat shit

Japanese scientists have found a way to create artificial meat from sewage containing human feces. Somehow this feels like a Vonnegut plotline: population boom equals food shortage. Solution? Synthesize food from human waste matter. Absurd yes, but Japanese scientists have actually discovered a way to create edible steaks from human feces.

Mitsuyuki Ikeda, researcher at Okayama Laboratory, has developed steaks based on proteins from human excrement. Tokyo Sewage approached the scientist because of an overabundance of sewage mud. They asked him to explore the possible uses of the sewage, and Ikeda found that the mud contained a great deal of protein because of all the bacteria.

The researchers extracted those proteins, combined them with a reaction enhancer, and put it in an exploder which created the artificial steak. The "meat" is 63% proteins, 25% carbohydrates, 3% lipids, and 9% minerals. The researchers apply red food coloring and enhance the flavor with soy protein. Initial tests have people saying it even tastes like beef.


Question: How does this differ from a Big Mac?

http://www.digitaltrends.com/international/japanese-scientists-creates-meat-out-of-feces/

Filed under: Big Mac Crazy Food Japan LOL McDonald's Science Shitburger WTF
 

Ronald McDonald Will Kill You

McDonald’s may drop limited insurance plans for 30,000 employees unless the government exempts the company from a new requirement. McDonald's says they will continue to offer "mini-med" plans, which allow workers to pay $14 a week for insurance coverage that caps at $2,000 a year.

Damon Silvers of the AFL-CIO says McDonald's is playing politics with its employees' health. "McDonald's is trying to say we want to leverage the administration to not enforcing the law by threatening to cut off health care to these low-wage workers who pay for it with their own money."

A blogger says McDonald’s “mini-med” plans do not qualify as insurance, noting the $2,000 cap does not cover much beyond routine check-ups. "To call that insurance is to distort the definition, since these policies would do very little to help people with even moderately serious medical conditions."

Another writer offers a solution: "Eliminate the Big Breakfast with Hotcakes, which has 93% of our daily recommended fat intake and 94% of our daily recommended sodium intake. The health care savings should be more than enough to cover the tab for any uptick in health insurance costs."

http://www.newsy.com/videos/mcdonald-s-threatens-to-cut-health-care-plans/

Filed under: AFL-CIO Health Healthcare McDonald's
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